Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

When meeting planner textbooks gloss over the key ways that meetings can be made much more effective and useful for all stakeholders, planners remain ignorant, and traditional broadcast-style meetings continue to be the norm. Most assume that a meeting planner is all they need. Steve Jobs said, “Design is how it works”.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 21, 2020

Meeting Design Toolbox for Meeting Architects. Follow our iconic event prof from this week’s episode about MCs for events! Samme Allen ( @sammeallen ). Dan Ram ( @iamdanram ). Check out the epic resources from today’s episode about MCs for events: Cultivating Engagement At Events.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2024

They discuss gender disparity in the events industry and the importance of confident authenticity, intentional mentorship, and supporting other women in the meetings industry. What One Thing? to share valuable insights on transitioning from an order-taker to a strategic leader in the events industry.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

“The meeting and event industry is healthy and has been for quite some time. Any time we have years of health and growth, we see people are able to be more innovative in their meeting design.”. Of those surveyed: One in five respondents said the duration of events is shorter.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 1, 2022

Read More : Virtual Meetings Are Missing These Two Things, Meta Is Working on a Fix. For other ideas and strategies to uplevel your event and meeting design, see the roster of Smart U classes available through Event Leadership Institute’s partnership with Smart Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. Great — a client who doesn’t know what they want! Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. From my perspective this is actually a great problem to have.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. ” But if we concentrate on increasing attendance, we overlook getting the meeting design right. Improving an event’s design makes the meeting better for all the stakeholders: meeting owners, sponsors, and participants.

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Eventtia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

On Wednesday, October 21st Spitche, MeltinLab, and Eventtia will be joining forces to host Get Together , a summit for marketers seeking new ways to connect, build communities, and create powerful experiences, all online.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Now that events are going back to in person, how can meeting professionals deliver the same level of detailed success metrics to the executive team about the range of value delivered on the investment? Two veteran meeting designers joined Smart Chat Live!

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A meeting designer could construct a sidebar of Zoom coffee shops and places where people can congregate with their customized avatar. It will all live on the power and stability of Zoom built in a digital store for third-party designers to add functionality—a Zoomiverse, if you will.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 16, 2021

And it made me think about meeting design. And, me being me, I thought about what Marcy had just said in the context of meeting design. And meetings are no exception. The art and craft of the meeting designer. It’s a meeting designer’s job to create these contextual layers.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you had told me forty years ago, a freshly minted high-energy particle physics postdoc, that I’d go on to have four additional careers (owner of a solar manufacturing business, computer science professor, independent IT consultant, and meeting designer/facilitator) I wouldn’t have believed you. Hire curious people.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Finally, as a meeting designer I’m convinced that using meeting formats that facilitate and support sharing amongst peers of relevant information is one of the most powerful ways to improve the effectiveness of meetings. Share information; don’t hoard it.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design. Ready to hear all about the ground-breaking magic of multi-hub meetings? In 2006, Marteen started the Meeting Design Institute. Meeting Architecture: A Manifesto by Maarten Vanneste.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Presentation versus interaction at meetings. But our meeting designs, in large part, haven’t changed to reflect this shift in cultural awareness. It has remained in first place ever since. Society, as reflected by books in English, now talks about interaction about twice as often as presentation.

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Endless Events

JUNE 21, 2019

But on the matter of inclusion at events, our host Tahira Endean sat down with Maarten Vannest e of the Meeting Design Institute. More specifically, how often do you think about the acronyms that are part of the event industry? Well, probably not frequently enough – none of us do!

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Endless Events

JULY 19, 2019

This time around, we welcomed Maarten Vanneste of the Meeting Design Institute to go over a topic we’re all too familiar with – internet connectivity. And we have the responsibility to our clients that we handle them as well as possible” Event Tech: Internet Connectivity.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 14, 2021

When the leading candidate for the Mayor of New York City has this take on how people learn, perhaps it’s not so surprising that we’re still sitting through endless broadcast-style sessions at meetings and conferences. Learning researchers and our best teachers and meeting designers have known this for a long time.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 3, 2022

Here’s a rare opportunity to ask me anything about meeting design and facilitation at a unique, free, online workshop. Meet, workshop with, and learn from other event professionals. Take this opportunity to ask Adrian anything about meeting design and facilitation.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

When the attendees are the owners, meeting designs that build and support community are the obvious way to go. The largely silent battles being fought about the future of journalism and meeting design are strikingly similar. This brings us to a key question that is rarely openly discussed: Whom are conferences for?

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Because good event design is about how a conference works. Participant-driven and participation-rich meeting designs incorporate a braindate’s purpose — one-to-one or small group connection around relevant content — organically into every session.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. And simple workshops that support connection (which may be emotional) between participants around relevant content provide better learning experiences. Emotions run us; our rationality comes in a distant second. Institutions. The things we do reflect our culture.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 28, 2021

Don’t just read about these formats, but experience them at a well-designed, well-facilitated/moderated event to truly learn how great a meeting can be. We covered a lot in a short time, but there’s much more to learn about Powerful panels and good meeting design!

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings. Increased learning, interaction, and connection.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 12, 2017

I love my meeting design clients, but there is one mistake I see them making over and over again. Clients invariably ask me to help design their meeting after they’ve chosen a venue! Here’s why they do it, and why it’s a mistake. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 25, 2022

Ask Adrian Anything: using a fishbowl sandwich to facilitate group discussion on meeting design and facilitation. Creating the right program. Consolidating learning. Facilitating individual and community growth. This workshop is limited to 100 attendees, so register now !

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Stova

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As F2F events reemerge, meeting designers will face a dilemma: How do you organize an event with two radically different audiences? A virtual component offers the possibility of opening up to a much larger audience with new and/or geographically dispersed markets not easily available at a F2F event.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

Want to read my other posts on hybrid meetings? I believe we’ve barely started to explore the capabilities of hybrid meeting designs. But in my judgment, the value of creating a less rushed event in the bounded space of a single day is worth it. Conclusion. You’ll find them here.].

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 6, 2022

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. What he learned could help other planners as they make sure they are fulfilling their duty-of-care obligations.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2024

In response to our sacred cow question, meeting designer Adrian Segar posted on X that we should “get rid of expensive keynotes, predetermined schedules of lectures, large events that try to cover everything with no support for tribes to find each other.”

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Outwardly, I’ve succeeded.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 27, 2022

According to Felix, the term ‘participant experience design’ is a work in progress. It was established based on the theory of meeting design, a well-known ‘tool kit’ used by planners worldwide. These elements — curiosity, openness, flow and willingness to learn – can be planned with the methods of ‘meeting design.’

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 7, 2021

Why am I writing about social learning on a blog that’s (mainly) about meeting design? Which means, to create the best meetings we need to maximize the social learning that takes place. [Hint: We’re not more intelligent than other species.]

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 21, 2022

Emcee and meeting designer Samme Allen says she founded the company in response to a growing need for experienced emcees, hosts, and moderators who “can be delivered cost effectively, flexibly, and in the most sustainable way.”.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 31, 2017

Although I have good reasons to champion meeting designs where the participants get to choose what they want and need to discuss and learn rather than a program committee , there is invariably a place for some predetermined presentations at conferences. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

In person meetings have vanished overnight. It’s time to implement what we’ve learned about great face-to-face meeting design and process into online meetings. Meetings will never be the same. So I won’t repeat myself here; read them for full details!

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